Sentence examples for over confirmation from inspiring English sources

The statement is likely to add fuel to an already contentious fight over confirmation, which Democrats strongly oppose.

If a Supreme Court justice retires, the committee and the Senate are also likely to clash over confirmation of a replacement.

A11 Split Over Confirmation Tactics Before senators begin questioning the Supreme Court nominee, John G. Roberts Jr., the debate over his confirmation is becoming a test of Senate Democrats as well.

One lady telephoned the paper in a state of high excitement, but it turned out that she was not so much alarmed as she was elated over confirmation by such a substantial authority of a conclusion she had reached, through certain horoscopic research, that N. Y. was to be visited by some sort of appalling calamity during the first week of August.

Unlike his White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who this week predicted a "big fight" over confirmation, Mr. Obama said in an interview with CNBC and The New York Times that he would pick "somebody who will be confirmable" and forecast "a smooth confirmation process".

I'm squealing like a pig on its way to the slaughterhouse over confirmation from Capcom that Bionic Commando will be hitting the US on May 19th.

Of course my oldest child would have to live with not receiving presents from her aunts and uncles whose over-confirmation kids we would not give gifts (she has actually indicated she'd be fine with it).

And some say the Senate, where the slow pace and partisan maneuvering over confirmations has kept high-level offices vacant for extended stretches, is being too timid and should consider more far-reaching changes for all presidential appointees.

Democrats are still strategizing over how best to proceed, but the nominees they have talked about putting forward first are those for vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board, the government entity that has become a major source of contention in the fight over confirmations between the White House and Senate Republicans.

Other theories focus on the local news going over confirmations of other unexploded bombs in the building.

"The fight over the confirmation over a director is a symbolic contest about who in the Senate wants to protect Main Street and who continues to serve Wall Street paymasters," said Bart Naylor, a consumer advocate at Public Citizen.